Camillo Finocchiaro Aprile

Camillo Finocchiaro Aprile (1851 to 1916) was an Italian jurist and politician who held several cabinet posts and sat in the Italian Parliament for more than three decades. Born in Palermo on 28 January 1851, he received a degree in law in 1873 and was elected a municipal councillor in Palermo while still studying. He served in Parliament from 1882 until his death in 1916, was minister of posts and telegraphs from May 1892 to November 1893 in the first Giolitti cabinet, and served as minister of justice in three terms (1898 to 1899, 1905 to 1906 and 1911 to 1914). He was four times vice president of the Parliament between 1895 and 1916. He died in Rome on 26 January 1916; one of his children, Andrea Finocchiaro Aprile, became a leader of the Movement for Sicilian Independence.